Goddamnit I’m leaving DC today! The National Portrait Gallery is one of my favorite Smithsonian institutions and I would love to see this in person.

You are engaging in some high quality misogynoir here.

It’s all offhand jokes that “don’t matter” unless you’re in the group that’s being stereotyped and denigrated.

No. Most of these bros start offering their opinions before anyone even asks then why they’re dating a non-black person. Donald Glover started spouting that stuff about black women in his early standups and mixtapes way before anyone knew (much less cared) he had a white partner.

This is, quite frankly, bullshit. I’m a blerd and I have lots of blerd friends from college and beyond. We dated, we turned it out, we partied, we got married, some of us have babies.

Im 32 and from Atlanta and I was never accused of acting white for being smart. Unlike ARay, I don’t doubt that it happens - I’ve heard too many other black people who have said it has to them. I’m only saying it personally didn’t happen to me. I think I was in high school right around the time where the Internet was…

You know i was kind of on board with yoy earlier in this thread, but this is ridiculous, and I say this as a black female nerd myself.

Why bring this up? The nerdy black girls are never the ones publicly whining that the black boys didn’t want them because they’re all thugs so they had to go white.

Yeah, that shit’s just annoying.

This is so weird; I was just thinking about this today, because I also came across the NYT article about the children of opioid addicts. Oh excuse me, children of the opioid epidemic, because another thing I realized from that article: they only used the world addict once, and that was when quoting one of their…

This is my thing! You mean to tell me you really care about charcoal grilling enough to sit around for two hours on a Saturday to make sure this family...what, gets a citation for charcoal grilling?

Same. I was just thinking about all the times I fell asleep in the library of the Ivy I went to for grad school and how some Becky could’ve called the cops on me for being Black and trying to study.

You know that blerds can be women, too, right?

Yeah, and apparently she grew up speaking both German and English at home even after her family moved to New York.

I used to do substance abuse research. DARE evaluation research has actually found that the program is useless - worse than useless, actually, because it increases children’s interest in and knowledge about drugs.

1. You are thinking of border collies, probably, but GSDs share some of those qualities.

Yeah, I was about to say! I have a dumb not-drug-dog who I retrained to answer to a different name in the span of three days.* You can definitely retrain a highly intelligent dog that is bred for drug detection work to do something else.

Nobody cares who you would date and/or marry. I think that’s the part you keep not getting.

Yeah, I peeped that too.

Why do you assume that black women are thinking anything about you when they pass you with your white girlfriend?